Oh, a lot of us knew Obamacare was a clusterfuck but believed then (and now) that it was better than what was going on without the government intrusion. Repealing it without something else in place to curb the medical industry's wholesale greed is tantamount to suicide, economically.
PS: Medicare, before the government gave up its bargaining rights to Big Pharma and the insurance industry, was an excellent example of government efficiency. It's the corporations that lobbied their way into the system that screwed Medicare up. But even with the declining benefits and doughnut-holes and screwed-upness, Medicare is still far more efficient in its spending than just about every insurance company out there.
But you and I will always disagree about the role of government. I (and the Founding Fathers, btw) believed that, flawed as it is, government is supposed to be there to protect us from the corporations (and other tyrants). It is not our enemy in and of itself, though we always will have to fight the entropy.
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Date: 2013-04-03 08:02 pm (UTC)PS: Medicare, before the government gave up its bargaining rights to Big Pharma and the insurance industry, was an excellent example of government efficiency. It's the corporations that lobbied their way into the system that screwed Medicare up. But even with the declining benefits and doughnut-holes and screwed-upness, Medicare is still far more efficient in its spending than just about every insurance company out there.
But you and I will always disagree about the role of government. I (and the Founding Fathers, btw) believed that, flawed as it is, government is supposed to be there to protect us from the corporations (and other tyrants). It is not our enemy in and of itself, though we always will have to fight the entropy.